Escaping to Ireland

Vinessa

She was drop-dead gorgeous. Every piece of hair was put in place, her skin was flawlessly tanned, one piece of article for clothing cost more than my whole wardrobe that was sitting back in Wanda's closet.

"I am here to see Liam," the blonde that I knew as Chloe said as soon as she stepped off the elevator.

She didn't take a seat like most people did. She just started walking toward Liam's office; she didn't knock as she walked in; she just walked in. I wanted to jump in front of her, block the door, and tell her to leave, but I was not jealous.

I was just even more confused than I was this morning. How could Liam like a woman like that and still be kicking around the idea of liking me? He would have to get bored with me eventually and want Chloe back. Granted, I had been thinking about having a family more and more, but Liam wouldn't want to have my auburn children running around when he could have perfectly manicured children with Chloe Bradshaw.

I was off the clock technically in five minutes, and I had already told Jennifer to pick me up, and I hated making people wait. 

I hoped that Chloe would be finished with their talk within that amount of time, but they were not.

Usually, I would wait to make sure Liam's visitors made it to the elevator just fine... But I knew that Chloe would be just fine. I locked my desk drawers up, I straightened the top of my desk out, prolonging it all as long as I could, but she didn't come out.

I sent Liam a text.

Vinessa: I had to step out - I have a few cars lined up to look at tonight.

I put my phone on vibrate so I wouldn't be waiting to hear the signal of a text coming in.

"Are you ready, chica?" Jennifer asked as soon as I got in the car.

"I guess so!" I said to upbeat that I hadn't seen Jennifer since the funeral and didn't know how it would go. She didn't miss a beat, and nothing seemed to be out of place.

"Let's hear it. How is hazel eye Liam doing?" Apparently, on our last night out together, when I consumed enough alcohol for the year, I had let it be known that his hazel eyes were what attracted me the most to him. "Not his biceps and six-pack abs?" Jennifer had asked, to which point she had googled him as well. It turned out Liam and his family were local celebrities with the galas and fundraisers that they would throw. Chloe's family was the same way, they both came from money, and it made sense how they hooked up.

"Chloe, the ex-fiance, is up there right now."

"And you are not up there waiting... why?" She stopped the car from exiting the parking lot.

"Because I am not jealous, and nothing is going on between Liam and me." Besides the two most passionate kisses I have ever had, and both of them being at the airport, I couldn't even imagine what a kiss from him would feel like outside of that location. She tisked at me. She knew Chloe personally and knew what she could be like. When she had googled Liam and saw who his ex-fiance was, her face grew with dread. "She is a ...." she didn't finish the sentence, but I knew what she was thinking. Even with her tisking, she drove out of the parking lot.

When I mentioned, Jennifer had connections with car dealerships, I meant that her connection was her father. Her father owned a few different businesses, and a car dealership was his newest venture. Even though he didn't get many car sales, he did it more so for a hobby and to take some of a loss for his taxes, or so Jennifer said when he had bought the car dealership.

"Vinessa, baby, you are looking great," Jennifer's brother Mark said as I walked in. Frank, her dad, hit him in the head.

"Leave her alone... She could do much better than you." The car dealership was where Mark was left to work. No one really cared if the dealership survived or not.